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Po'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.
The drought has been linked to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a natural climate pattern. A new study finds global warming is now influencing that natural phenomenon.
Immigration isn’t the only hot-button issue along the US-Mexico border. There’s also a growing water shortage that’s affecting farmers, businesses and cities on both sides.
Even though Bernal is known as the father of Chicano photography, his work has long been overlooked. Now he’s the subject of a new exhibition at the University of Arizona.
When the Rio Grande figures in US news reports, it’s usually in relation to stories about immigration, drug trafficking or trade. But the river is also an important water source – and it’s shrinking.
Desert dust storms are increasingly picking up materials like sewage, herbicides and other human-made waste and transporting them on tiny particles that are easy to inhale.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
Fire season is getting longer, and the result is transforming iconic desert ecosystems. The start to 2022 has been so dire, one governor called for a federal disaster declaration.
A Western scholar proposes allocating water from the Colorado River based on percentages of its actual flow instead of fixed amounts that exceed what’s there – and including tribes this time.
Cities and farmers in the Southwest are resorting to unsustainable strategies to pull in more water. Iran has tried many of these strategies and shows how they can go wrong.
Record heat and low rainfall are drying up water sources shared by the American Southwest and northern Mexico.
Tribal lands are hot spots for COVID-19 infections and deaths. Racism is one of the reasons.
Border wall construction through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.
The Mohave rattlesnake is famous for its variable venom – but the reasons behind that variation are not as straightforward as we thought.
Some observers have blamed recent wildfires on poor forest management, while others point to climate change. In fact, a climate scientist explains, reducing fire risks means tackling both issues.
New research projects that climate change could greatly increase airborne dust levels in the southwestern US, causing higher hospital admissions and premature deaths from heart and lung ailments.
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy’s famous novel, may be unfilmable – not because of its gruesome violent tale of U.S. imperialism in the Southwest, but because its religious vision is terrifying.
Trump’s administration plans to ramp up prosecution of unauthorized border crossings. Here’s the story of how it became illegal in the first place.
Multiple times over the centuries, climate issues caused Pueblo farming to collapse, taking the establishment down with it. New research suggests there are parallels with American inequalities today.
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Utah
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Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Global Health, George Washington University
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Graduate student, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
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Associate Research Scientist, Université de Lausanne
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Senior Research Fellow in Chemistry-Climate Interactions, Harvard University
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Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Social Science Community Engagement Story Lab, Northern Arizona University
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Regents Professor of Archaeology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Washington State University
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Research Professor in Environmental Science, American University
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Associate Professor of Water Resources Engineering, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Environmental Science, American University of Sharjah
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Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine